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Tenessee vs. Ken Taylor

Ken Taylor is charged with the death of his foster son Jordan Shelton (16). Prosecutors allege that Taylor strangled the young man while the defense claims self-defense after the youth attacked the defendant.

A lot of the testimony focused on the troubled teens life as well as the seemingly spotless life Ken Taylor has. It was brought out during cross examination that there was a vandalism incidents 12 years ago where Mr. Taylor broke out windows in a woman’s home and then paid restitution where she then dropped the charges.

Taylor also took the stand in his own defense.

After two weeks of testimony Taylor was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and reckless aggravated assualt.

Faced with doubts about prosecutorial misconduct and the accuracy of forensic evidence, the Ohio Parole Board has recommended that Governor John Kasich grant executive clemency to William T. Montgomery (pictured), scheduled to be executed on April 11. Montgomery was convicted and sentence to death in 1986 for two murders he has long maintained he did not com […]

Human rights advocates are warning that the impending execution of Russell Bucklew (pictured) in Missouri on March 20 presents a “substantially increase[d] risk of a gruesome and botched execution.” Court pleadings and a March 14 letter from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) say that Bucklew suffers f […]

At a news conference on March 14, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter and Corrections Director Joe M. Allbaugh announced that the state plans to switch its method of execution from lethal injection to nitrogen gas asphyxiation. Attorney General Hunter said the move to nitrogen hypoxia was necessary “because of the well-documented fact that states across th […]

The California Supreme Court has vacated the conviction of Vicente Figueroa Benavides (pictured), saying that the forensic evidence that sent the former Mexican farmworker to death row 25 years ago was “extensive,” “pervasive,” “impactful,” and “false.” Benavides, now 68, was sentenced to death in 1993 after being found guilty of brutally murdering Consuelo […]